Kain Burggraff received a gift from his father recently – a gift that resulted in a 724-pound surprise.

Kain, son of Cody Burggraff of Dell Rapids, nabbed a wild boar, his first big kill since taking up hunting, near the Iowa/Illinois/Missouri border recently when the seven-year-old, along with his father and friend Mason Stubbe, traveled there.

He used a ruger .243 rifle at 60 yards while hunting from a ground blind the night of Sept. 7 to bag the boar. It weighed 724 pounds, was more than eight feet long and had cutters more than six inches long.

Burggraff is having the boar half-body mounted on a pedestal by taxidermist Jesse Travis of Travis Taxidermy, Humboldt.